Filling-replenishing loom.



N0. 69l,734. Patented Ian. 2|, I902.

N. WARD. FILLING REPLENISHING LOOM.

(Application filed July 80, 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEIL \VARD, OF IJONSDALE, RHODE ISLANDpASSIGNOR TO DRAPER COM- PANY, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATIONOF MAINE.

'FILLING-REPLENISHING LOOM.

tSPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691,734, dated January 21, 1902.

Application filed July 30, 1901. Serial No. 70,250. (No model.)

To LtZZ whom, zit may concern: i

Be it known that I, NEIL WARD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lonsdale, county-of Providence, State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improvement in Filling-Replenishing Looms, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, isaspecification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates particularly to that type of loom wherein a fresh filling-carrier is inserted automatically in the shuttle upon failure or more or less complete exhaustion of the filling in the shuttle, such a loom being shown in United States Patent No. 529,940, dated November 27, 1894. In such looms the incoming fresh filling-carrier ejects thefilling-carrier then in the shuttle and discharges itthrough an opening in the shuttle-box.

My present invention has for its object the production of very simple, efiective, and durable means for guiding the discharged filling-carrier away from the shuttle-box and lay and preferably into a suitable receptacle provided for the purpose.

Figure l is a'transverse sectional view, of a portion of a loom provided with automatic filling-replenishing mechanism with one embodiment of my invention applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a portion of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1;

Referring to the drawings, the main frame A and the lay A having at one end thereof a shuttle-box 13, provided with a dischargeopening 10 in its bottom to communicate with a cut-away portion A in the front side of the lay beneath the shuttle-box, may be and are of well-known construction, an ejected fillingcarrier being discharged by the incoming fresh one from the shuttle S through the opening 10 and the cut-away portion A of the lay.

The filling-feeder comprises two connected parallel plates, only one of which, as a, is herein shown, to receive the filling-carriers h, the supporting-stand A having the fixed stud a,- on which the feeder rotates, the means for intermittingly rotating it, the transferrer f, fulcrumed at f on the stand, and the actuating means therefor, including the operating or controlling rock-shaft d, (all shown in Fig. 1,) which may be and are allsubstantially as shown and described in United States Patent No. 664,790, dated December 25, 1900, though it is to be understood that myinvention is not restricted to use with the particular mechanism for operating the transferrer herein shown.

A-change of filling is effected when the lay heats up into the dotted-line position, Fig. 1, and I have herein provided means for receiving and conducting away the discharged or ejected filling-carrier at such time.

i In accordance with my invention a chute or guide g, preferably made of sheet metal, is fixedly mounted at its lower end on a stud or support a rigidly secured to and extended laterally from the loom-frame A, so that the chute will be in front of the end of the lay on which the shuttle-box B is mounted. The upper end of the chute is upturned and rearwardly inclined (best shown in Fig. 1) to form a resilient or flexible lip g and so positioned that when the lay is in position for a change of filling to be effected the lip will extend into the cut-away portion A of the lay beneath the opening 10 and with its transverse upper edge immediately adjacent the back wall of the cut-away part A in order to prevent any possibility of the ejected filling-carrier drop,- ping between the lip and the lay. When a discharged filling-carrier passes through said openings, it is received upon the lip, as at b (see dotted lines, Fig. 1,) and is conducted by the chute away from the shuttle-box and the lay to a safe place for deposit. 7

Herein in Fig. 1 I have shown an open box or receptacle G to receive the discharged filling-carriers as they leave the chute, and at its inner edge the latter may be bent up to form a guide-flange g to prevent any longitudinal movementof the filling-carrier toward the center of the loom. v

Inasmuch as the chute is made of sheet metal, which is inherently resilient and flexible, it will be manifest that should the lay in its forward beat engage the lip no damage will be caused, as the lip will give or flex sufficiently, and thereafter it will return to normal position when the lay swings back. By reason of this flexibility or resiliency the chute can be so positioned or adjusted on the loom-frame that its lip will just touch the back wall of the cut-away part A of the lay when the latter is fully forward to insure the dropping of the spent filling-carrier onto and not behind the chute or guide.

By my invention the lay has no additional weight to carry, and by making the chute stat-ionary the number of parts is reduced and the general construction greatly simplified.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a loom, a lay, a shuttle-box having an opening in its bottom for the discharge of a fillingcarrier, the front side of the lay being cut away beneath the opening, and a fixedlymonnted chute independent of the lay, and having its upper end rearwardly inclined to form a resilient lip to enter the cut-away portion of the lay beneath the opening in the shuttle-box, and to closely approach the back wall of the cutaway portion when the lay beats up, to receive and conduct a discharged filling-carrier away from the shuttle-box.

2. In a loom, a lay, a shuttle-box thereon having an opening inits bottom, the lay being cut away beneath the opening, a shuttle open at top and bottom, and adapted to contain a filling-carrier, means to automatically insert a filling-carrier into the shuttle and to discharge the one then in the shuttle through the bottom of the latter and the opening in the shuttle-box, and a fixed chute or guide independent of the lay and having a lip adapted to extend beneath the said opening in the shuttle-box and into the cut-away portion of the lay, when a filling-carrier is discharged therethrough, the edge of the lip being closely adjacent the back wall of such cut-away portion at the time of discharge.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

1 NEIL \VARD. Witnesses:

R. WOODHEAD, PATRICK J. RUTLEDGE. 

